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Jan. 1, 2007 at 6:35pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan
Search Headlines: December 2006
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=== Dec. 29, 2006 ===
- Of Disappearing Sex Blogs & Google Updates, Search Engine Land
- Google Pushes Forward With Newspaper Ads, Search Engine Land
- Google Jet Spotted At Christchurch Airport, New Zealand, Search Engine Land
- Google Accidentally Deletes Email Of 60 Gmail Users, Search Engine Land
- Yahoo Removes Message Boards: What Is To Come?, Search Engine Land
- Defending SEO, Yet Again!, Search Engine Land
- The People Behind Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, MapQuest & Other Mapping Software, Search Engine Land
- Google's Not So Top Terms & Top US Gainers For 2006, Search Engine Land
- PhraseRank, Not PageRank, To Fight Search Spam, Search Engine Land
- YellowPages.com Adds 'Send to Mobile, Search Engine Land
- 2006: The Year in Search Reviewed, Avenue A / Razorfish
- A tale of two social newsfilter sites: Digg and Newstrust, Boing Boing
- Trust is Hard to Gain, Easy to Lose, Blake Ross
- Google Self-Promotion Over the Top?, Search Engine Showdown
- Get Disorganized with Google Desktop?, Google Blogoscoped
- Google’s Orkut Down For 13+ Hours, TechCrunch
- N.C. pursues Google division expansion, The Charlotte Observer
- Interview with Google about duplicate content, Natural Search Blog
- Is desktop search over?, Geeking With Greg
- Overlap Showdown: Only at 1 of 6, Search Engine Showdown
- Best of 2006, Google AdSense Blog
- Need Content Removed From Google Quickly? Expedited Google Content Removal, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Drops Ads Automator for New AdWords Campaigns, Search Engine Roundtable
- When Google sneezes, the internet gets flu, The Register
- Yahoo to offer full auction refunds in Japan case, Webwereld
=== Dec. 28, 2006 ===
- Google Ranks Second In Merriam-Webster's Word Of 2006 List, Search Engine Land
- Google Blog Search Passes Technorati In Visits, Search Engine Land
- Patent Filing for Google Mobile Search Provides Indexing Clues, Search Engine Land
- How Google Sitelinks May Work, From Patent Application, Search Engine Land
- Yahoo To Open New Research Center In Bangalore, Search Engine Land
- New Mobile Flight Status Tracker By FlightStats, Search Engine Land
- Question & Answer Search Engines Ranked, Search Engine Land
- Top 101 Search Stories Of 2006, Search Engine Land
- Search Bloggers On Their Most Popular Posts & Stats For 2006, Search Engine Land
- Google Chief Executive Sells Shares, AP
- You Are So Wrong About Google, The Motley Fool
- Top 10 Search Terms in 10 Categories, November 2006, ClickZ
- Yahoo! Christmas Update? I Doubt It, Search Engine Roundtable
- How Does Google Crawl Pages & Index Them?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Yahoo to launch 'Big Thinker Series' in India from January, New Kerala
- Microsoft's adCenter Promotional Codes Not So Promotional?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Webaroo Secures $7.5 Million Second Round Funding, PaidContent.org
- 62 posts on how to squeeze the juice from digg, Cornwall SEO
- Stupid Things We Say – Part 2, Greg Boser
- How to become a top 100 Digg user, Pronet Advertising
- Consumers Submit To Yahoo Local, WebProNews
- Megite’s Alternative Way to Rank Popular Videos, TechCrunch
- More on Yahoo-AOL Combination Possibility: Financial Models, Savings Etc, PaidContent.org
- Possibility Of A Yahoo-AOL Merger in 2007; Google-AOL Change of Control Clause, PaidContent.org
- Jobless in Seattle?, GigaOM
- Make Google Services Opera-Friendly, Google Operating System
- Google not pointing to “best in their class� says Blake, Robert Scoble
- Google arrogant?, Robert Scoble
- Speech-friendly textual directions from Google Maps, Official Google Blog
- Democracy Hath No ‘Bury’ Button, The Mu Life
- Google & Search Engines Do Not Mind Bad HTML When Crawling, Search Engine Roundtable
- How to Add Search to Google Reader, Google Operating System
- Google Predictions, 2007, Googling Google
- Google Wishlist for 2007, Google Operating System
- News site Digg raises $8.5M more, rejects evidence it has been gamed, VentureBeat
- Beyond Skin Deep: The real top dating sites, Compete Blog
- How to Build a ‘Digg Culture’ on your Blog, Darren Rowse
- Clipblast! Releases List of Top Video Searches in 2006, Search Engine Watch Blog
- Google makes 20 cents per search?, Geeking with Greg
- PayPerPost Grabs Performancing, ClickZ
- ReviewMe Owner Sells Performancing Assets to PayPerPost, Online Marketing Blog
- Yahoo Chief Praised for Candor, Intelect, theledger.com
- Beyond Search: Google Specialty Services, PC World
=== Dec. 27, 2006 ===
- Google To Invest In China Based Video Download Site, Search Engine Land
- Using Google Code Search To Find Vulnerable Sites, Search Engine Land
- Behind The Google Shuffle, Search Engine Land
- Google #4 On BusinessWeek's Tech Hot Growth 50, Search Engine Land
- Google News Mobile Now Customizable, Search Engine Land
- MySupermarket Comparison Site, Search Engine Land
- Google's Data Refresh; Any Patterns or Commonalities?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Is 'Web 2.0' Another Bubble?, WSJ.com
- Google in the New Year [Ahead of the Curve], Fool.com
- Crowd Wisdom vs. Google's Genius, BusinessWeek
- Contextual Search Ads: Boon or Bust?, Search Engine Watch
- Google Search Linked to Profit, RED HERRING
- Image Seach Engine in Beta, Search Engine Watch Blog
- SEO Strategy: Zone or Man to Man?, Online Marketing Blog
- Paid Blog Reviews: ReviewMe & PayPerPost, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Notebook: Use the Privacy Option, Techcrunch
- Google Myths, Google Operating System
- Google Talk Getting Some Sort Of Phone Service, Inside Google
- Google VP speaks of plans for the coming year, Googling Google
- Google Set To Expand Newspaper Ad Program, washingtonpost.com
- Google Preps Blogger For The Enterprise, Internet News
- 2006 Trends: The Year That Wasn't, MediaPost Publications
- comScore to take Web 2.0 seriously, Arstechnica
- Cloak Your Affiliate Links Tutorial, SEO News Blog
- Wikiasari, Community Search Engine; What About Info Pro Community Constructed Databases and Search Tools?, ResourceShelf
- Cre8asiteforums Applies Ad Revenue to Sponsor Education, Cre8asite Blog
- Yahoo Updates Toolbar and Bookmarks, ClickZ
- Google fails to find own software, Platinax
- Google's Open Source Airbag, InternetNews
- Monday interview: Yahoo's Mecca Ibrahim on blogging, communities, and Web 2.0, TechDigest
- Google tips are bad for users, Guardian Unlimited
=== Dec. 26, 2006 ===
- Google Testing Video Ads "In Stream", Search Engine Land
- Ask.com Top Searches of 2006, Search Engine Land
- How Microsoft's Behavioral Targeting Works, Search Engine Land
- Google Partners With China Mobile To Launch Mobile Search, Search Engine Land
- Is Panama The Answer To Yahoo's Problems?, Search Engine Land
- Google Shows Quality Score Indicator To Some AdWords Advertisers, Search Engine Land
- Judge Dismisses Google AdSense & AutoLink Toolbar Lawsuits, Search Engine Land
- Wikipedia Founder To Launch Wikiasari Search Engine Early 2007, Search Engine Land
- Speech-friendly textual directions from Google Maps, Google Blog
- Verizon to Allow Ads on Its Mobile Phones, New York Times
- Google Preps Blogger For The Enterprise, Internet News
- The omnipresent search engines, Business Standard
- Special Logos: Ask.com’s Kwanzaa Logo, Ask UK’s New Year’s Eve Logo, ResourceShelf
- Meet the Mobile Search Engines, Search Engine Watch
- Internet Marketing Best [Blog] Posts of 2006: The Year in Review, Techipedia
- Giving Dr. Google The Test, courant.com
- Google to Write an 'Integrated Story'?, InternetNews
- Why Yahoo’s Panama Project Is Important, Techcrunch
- Google AdSense Competitive Ad Filter Not Working?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Testing: Yahoo Mobile U.S. Now Showing Ads/Promos at Top of Homepage (Sometimes), ResourceShelf
- Explaining algorithm updates and data refreshes, Matt Cutts
- Google goes l337, Search Engine Tigers
- When AdSense Acts Like Gator, ClickZ
- Ad Costs on the Web Are Rising, but Perhaps a Bit Irrationally, New York Times
- Where on Earth is Santa?, Google Blog
- Power Your Search Apps with Yahoo! Search APIs, Yahoo Blog
- Australian Court Ruling Could Impact Search, Search Engine Watch Blog
- THE YEAR IN ASK 2006, Ask.com Blog
- Interview with Search Engineer Tim Converse, SugarRae Blog
- Google’s Listings of Internal Site Links for Top Search Results, SEO By The Sea
- How Google Might Decide to Index Your Site for Mobile Search, SEO By The Sea
- French court favors personal privacy over piracy searches (Thomas Crampton/International Herald ...), Techmeme
- Gentlemen Stop Your Linking (William Patry/The Patry Copyright Blog), Techmeme
- Merrill Bets On Yahoo!-AOL Merger, Forbes.com
- S.F., Google, EarthLink wrestle over plans for free Wi-Fi service for city residents, SFGate.com
- Yahoo likes these hackers, Philadelphia Inquirer
- The Best Blog Traffic & Monetization Posts of 2006, Hawaii Online Ad Blog
- A Ten-Minute Christmas, Yahoo Publisher Network Blog
- Happy holidays, Google Book Search Blog
=== Dec. 22, 2006 ===
- Some Of Digg's Ban Domain List, Search Engine Land
- A Google Holiday Update Or Data Refresh, Search Engine Land
- Google Says They Won't Ask For Help In China To Compete, Search Engine Land
- 2006 Holiday Season Search Logos, Search Engine Roundtable
- Shammi Kapoor: The original Yahoo man, BBC NEWS
- SideStep Inc. Partners With Orange in the UK, Yahoo! Finance
- NYTimes.com Taps Yahoo's Gaylord as Marketing VP, MarketingVOX
- Podcast: Respect For SEO; Germany & France Split On Quaero; Wishing For Multimedia Matt Cutts & More, Daily SearchCast
- Microsoft adCenter Showing 40% Higher Conversion Data, Search Engine Roundtable
- Microsoft fights Gmail in the workplace, APC Magazine
- Ask has the mojo to double its search market share, Between the Lines
- Google considering expansion near S.C.'s coast, Mercury News
- The Ins and Outs of Google Webmaster Central, SEO News Blog
- Gains and gripes with Google, News.com
- Better understanding of your site, Google Webmaster Central
- Microsoft seeks patent covering Web feed readers, News.com
- Stepping into the Did It/Web Guerrilla/Searchengineland Fray, Out Of My Gord
- Can’t we all get along?, Frog Blog
- Happy Holidays from the Inside AdWords crew, AdWords Blog
- Google exec heaps praise on local office, The Seattle Times
- Publishers Noticing Yahoo!'s New Compliance Manager At Work, Search Engine Roundtable
- Twenty Days on Yahoo's Panama, ClickZ
- Google May Add Referrer Data To Web Crawl Error Reports, Search Engine Roundtable
=== Dec. 21, 2006 ===
- Wish List: Interactive Help From Google's Matt Cutts & MattPasses, Search Engine Land
- Why Did Google Stop Supporting The SOAP API?, Search Engine Land
- Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom Signs Mobile Deal With Google, Search Engine Land
- Yahoo China Wins Suit Against Hongyi's Qihoo For Unfair Competition, Search Engine Land
- Screaming About The Search Tail, Search Engine Land
- Germany Leaves Quaero To France, To Start Theseus Search Project, Search Engine Land
- New Delicious Tagometer Badge, Search Engine Land
- Yes Virginia, SEO Is Rocket Science - Defending Search Engine Optimization Once Again, Search Engine Land
- Search Patents Filings from 12-20-06 - Reranking on Information Redundancy and on Searcher Affinities, Search Engine Land
- Search Blog Awards By Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land
- Google Claims to Return Result in 0.00 Seconds, Google Blogoscoped
- The Worst Stock for 2007: Google, Fool.com
- Breaking Out of Google’s Supplemental Index, Search Engine Guide
- Google Decorates Its Ads For The Holidays, Again, InsideGoogle
- What does a link campaign look like for Local?, Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local
- Google Advertising On Billboards, Kiosks, TV, and Other Displays, SEO By The Sea
- Less Cutting and Pasting – More Maps and Local in Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo Local Blog
- New multimedia guide about the Google content network, Google AdWords Blog
- Snap Releases Image Search Tool; Video Search Review, ResourceShelf
- A force for change at Yahoo [Susan Decker], News.com
- Delhi SEO Meet II -- March 31, Delhi, India, Link Building Blog
- Microsoft adCenter Buy Causes Reports To Be Delayed "A Day Or So", Search Engine Roundtable
- If You Don't Have a Duplicate Content Problem; Don't Fix It, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Books Generates Results in No Time, Google Blogoscoped
- The Year in Search: A 2006 Review, ClickZ
- Local Search Optimization, ClickZ
- Search Engine Optimization for . . . Jesus!!!, SEO BlackHat
- 2006 Predictions: How Did I Do?, John Battelle
- The SBS Interview: Lee Odden, Small Business SEM
- Happy Holidays with Google Desktop 4.5, Official Google Desktop Blog
- Holiday Gadgets, Official Google Gadgets Blog
- Year Later, Google Talk and AIM Still Don't Interoperate, Micro Persuasion
- The hypocrisy of digg and spam, Online Marketing Blog
- Google - Update on Executed Searches (U.S.), Hitwise
- Privacy Breached by Phone Book, Wall Street Journal
- Google and the Entertainment Industry - a Snapshot, John Battelle
- Five Things Folks Don’t Know About Me, Tara Calishain
- Apparently Daypop is Back?, ResearchBuzz
- Google Zeitgeist last updated Jan 2006?, Phil Bradley
- NYT hires Yahoo! executive for digital growth, Crain's New York Business
- SEO 2.0 And The Pageless Web: The RIA Search Conundrum, Search Insider
- 2002 Stanford Videos with Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, SEO By The Sea
- Regifting SEO tools, calculators and images for the holidays, Search Engine Watch Blog
- Google Holiday Gift - iPod Shuffle, Shimon Sandler
- Unleashing the Fury on Keyword Research Tools, SEOmoz
- Pligg: a CMS framework to build digg-like sites, SEOmoz
- News can be Great content, SEOmoz
- The Link Building Conundrum - Eric Ward's View, Search Engine Watch Blog
- YPN SNOW Chistmas Card, SEO News Blog
- What Google Can’t Do, Red Herring
=== Dec. 20, 2006 ===
- Battle For Books: Evil Google Versus The Altruistic Open Content Alliance, Search Engine Land
- Google Pushing New Blogger In Search Results, Search Engine Land
- The Lies Of Top Search Terms Of The Year, Search Engine Land
- Diller Touting Ask And Centrality Of Local, Search Engine Land
- Google Search History Used To Send Wireless Hacker To Prison, Search Engine Land
- Holiday 2006 Grudge Match: Google Checkout Versus Paypal, Search Engine Land
- Portrait Of A New Site Getting On Digg, Search Engine Land
- Google By Far The Leader, If You Look At Site Owner Traffic Stats, Search Engine Land
- Beyond the SOAP Search API, Official Google Code Blog
- Reactions on Discontinuation of Google API, Google Blogoscoped
- Podcast: Are Those Really Top Search Terms Of 2006; Book Battles; Ask's Cool Ask X Design & More, Daily SearchCast
- Google Base Store Connector Updates, Official Google Base Blog
- Housing Information Lives on the Web, ClickZ Stats
- SEM Nightmare - Yahoo Thinks I'm a Typo, IncrediBILL
- Pixsy Goes the Widget Way, ClickZ
- Jake Baillie to Leave TrueLocal, Online Marketing Blog
- 9 Cost-Effective PPC Branding Strategies, Marketing Pilgrim
- Google Data Joins PHP Zend Framework, DevX News
- Podcast: Google Link Building, Duplicate Content, CSS Tricks, Images Near AdSense, Yahoo! Directory Tag, Here Comes Panama, & More, Search Engine Roundtable
- Avoiding Google’s Duplicate Filter When Syndicating Your Blog, Marketing Pilgrim
- When Will Google Begin Devaluing Social Links; Such As Digg.com, Yahoo! Answers & del.icio.us?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Life without a SearchEngine, Dave Naylor
- Yahoo Japan launches WLAN service, TeleGeography Research
- Google Makes 3 of Top 10 Media Acquisitions in 2006: AdAge, Google Watch
- Free Content Clicks from adCenter, PPC Discussions
- Google Partnerships & Enhanced Logo Branding, Search Engine Journal
- Industry Moves: Yahoo VP Joins NYTimes.co as VP, Marketing, PaidContent.org
- Google Says It Wins With Video Ads, WebProNews
- Indiana tweaking Internet search engine [ChaCha], Chronicle-Tribune
- Yahoo Upgrades Personals - Does This Stuff Work?, TechCrunch
- Site Architecture and SEO, ClickZ
- What Can Advertisers Do at Answers.com?, iMedia Connection
- Zoho Goes Wiki, TechCrunch
- YouTube's Solution To Unauthorized Japanese Videos: A Warning Written In Japanese, Techdirt
- Google Holds First Pajama Day (in beta!), InsideGoogle
- A Keynote Conversation with Danny Sullivan and Jason Calacanis, SearchDay
- del.icio.us API for URL top tags, bookmark count, Niall Kennedy
- People search engine Spock raises $7M, to launch next year, VentureBeat
- Hey (Username) Your lights are on!, Official Google Enterprise Blog
- Top 16 Reasons People Hate SEOs, Stuntdubl
- Dave Naylor's New MySpace Site, TickMe, Daggle
- The New Version of Blogger, Official Blogger Blog
- Questions in SEO that I Can't Answer, SEOmoz
- Voices.com Offering Talent For Google Audio Ads, InsideGoogle
- Google's Discontinued Services, Google Operating System
- Chris Sherman on How to Find the Right Search Marketing Partner, 10e20 Blog
- PodZinger Expands with European Partnership, PodZinger Blog
- Highlight: Hanukkah, Official Google Video Blog
- PubCon Las Vegas 2006 - The Movie, mediadonis
- When Did Matt Cutts Lose His Conference Virginity?, Daggle
- Google Dell PC (Screenshot), Google Blogoscoped
- Google Swimming Pool, Google Blogoscoped
- Google Gingerbread Man, Daggle
=== Dec. 19, 2006 ===
- Up Close With Digg Podcasts (& Vote For The Daily SearchCast!), Search Engine Land
- Ask.com Tests New Search Interface With Ask X, Search Engine Land
- Survey: General Search Fails Professionals, Search Engine Land
- Yahoo Pushing Vertical Search Through More Yahoo Shortcuts, Search Engine Land
- Google Drops SOAP Search API, Search Engine Land
- Quintura For Kids Launched, Search Engine Land
- Enquisite Search Marketing Shares: Google Sends Most Traffic, Search Engine Land
- Reminder: How To Find The Right Search Marketing Partner Webinar Today, Search Engine Land
- Google Maps Adds Multiple Destinations To Driving Directions, Search Engine Land
- Google Tests Related Searches At Bottom Of Page, Search Engine Land
- Australian Court Rules Against Linking; Search Engines Don't Need To Panic, Search Engine Land
- Polar Rose Promising Face Recognition Image Search, Search Engine Land
- YouTube's Growth Worries Media Giants, Search Engine Land
- Google Ran Out Of Radio Ad Inventory Already, Search Engine Land
- Google Says No To Images Next To AdSense, Search Engine Land
- Why Do People Google Google? Understanding User Data to Measure Searcher Intent, Search Engine Land
- Stop The Freak Out Over Linking, Search Engine Land
- Google's Tips On Duplicate Content Worries, Search Engine Land
- Yahoo's Anti-Spam Guy Tim Converse Leaving, Search Engine Land
- The New Digg Features Plus, A Submitter's Perspective, Search Engine Land
- Tracking Santa Through NORAD & Google Earth, Search Engine Land
- Unmashable Web?, Ongoing
- The last blog post on the Google API, Dave Winer
- Podcast: Don't Freak Over Links! Digg New Features -- Digg The Daily SearchCast! How People Search, Tracking Santa & More, Daily SearchCast
- Yahoo! Talent Show Crowns Winner, WebProNews
- Tracking Santa in 3D with SkylineGlobe, ResourceShelf
- Image search race: Polar Rose, Pixsy, Snap, Ookles, Riya -- list is getting long, VentureBeat
- Aerial Coverage for all of Italy, Windows Live Local Blog
- Time for a new hit, Yahoo Corporate Blog
- Pimp my links: JeepReviews.com, Pronet Advertising
- Does this MSN Behavioral Search Matter?, Search Engine Watch Blog
- Snap Image Search, VentureBeat
- Google Reviews, Google Blogoscoped
- Yahoo! 2006 Holiday Schwag, Cartoon Barry Blog
- Accessible Search: Answers to common questions, Official Google Blog
- Google Releases Russian Translation, News, Google Blogoscoped
- 9 Ways To Get Banned by Search Engines, Search Engine Journal
- Exalead Patent Granted for Unified Search Using Categories and Keywords, SEO By The Sea
- SimplyHeadlines.com emerges from "stealth mode", Search Engine Watch Blog
- Google Movie Mentions We'd Like to See, Google Blogoscoped
- West Point: Googling Considered Harmful, Google Watch
- Google Jokes, Sometimes..., Google Blogoscoped
- Blogger Beta Integrates with Picasa Web Albums, Google Blogoscoped
- DMOZ is Back Online, SEO Book
- Book: Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge, Google Blogoscoped
- Top news searches differ from top web searches, Search Engine Watch Blog
- Track Google Bugs, Google Blogoscoped
- Opera Introduces Fraud Protection, Opera
- Does It Pay to Use Google Checkout? (Pun Intended), Search Marketing Standard Blog
- First Big Partner for Zudeo- BBC, TechCrunch
- Digg continues to battle phony stories, News.com
- EBay Is Expected to Close Its Auction Site in China, New York Times
- AOL Chief Has a View, a Long One, New York Times
- AOL Re-Org Unveiled: Six Business Units Will Report To COO Ron Grant, PaidContent.org
- Everything in the Digg, Reddit & Netscape Algorithms, SEOmoz
- Indulge in some holiday giving, Official Google Checkout Blog
- Yahoo! Helps Children's Charity Search Engine For Christmas, Search Engine Watch Blog
- Searches Up, Dude! Ask.com Sponsors Surf Contest, Search Engine Watch Blog
=== Dec. 18, 2006 ===
- WSJ Bearish On Google? If Only 60% Growth Is Bearish..., Search Engine Land
- Google & NASA Partner To Make NASA's Data More Accessible, Search Engine Land
- Top Google Search Terms Of 2006, Search Engine Land
- Google Explains AdWords Trademark Policies, Search Engine Land
- UTube Monetizes Mistaken YouTube Traffic, Search Engine Land
- Trademark Infringement Case Against Yahoo In Google AdWords Dismissed, Search Engine Land
- New York Times On Buzz Search, Search Engine Land
- Google Acquired Endoxon: Geo Mapping Software, Search Engine Land
- Yahoo Names Nash New Chief Communications Officer, Search Engine Land
- Google In Russia & Europe: The International Challenge, Search Engine Land
- Yahoo Says No Directory Tag Coming January 2007, Search Engine Land
- Decipho Personalized Search Engine, Search Engine Land
- Yoople For Collaborative Searching, Search Engine Land
- 'Reverse Engineering' Google Local Results, Search Engine Land
- Google & Orange Talking Google Mobile Phone?, Search Engine Land
- You (& Sort Of YouTube) Named Time Magazine Person Of The Year, Search Engine Land
- ODP Founder Skrenta On Dying Open Directory, Search Engine Land
- German economics ministers reveals move away from ‘Quaero’, Multilingual Search Blog
- New Digg Features O' Plenty, Digg Blog
- The Last 3 Years of the Digg Homepage Interface, The Mu Life
- Podcast: You(Tube) Named Time's Person Of The Year; Buzz Search; Google Goes To Russia; Google Mobile Phone Coming? And More, Daily SearchCast
- Survivor Winner Yul Worked with Google, Search Engine Journal
- Google Discontinues The Free Google Search API Key - Is It Gone Forever?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Interview with Andy Beal of Marketing Pilgrim, Online Marketing Blog
- Creating Ad Copy that Clicks, Official Yahoo Search Marketing Blog
- Google Base Upload Errors, ComparionsEngines.com
- 2006 Top Searches Analyzed, Search Engine Watch Blog
- New Tool Looks for Copyright Violations on the Web, ResourceShelf
- Facebook, Courted By Yahoo, Won't Sell, Director Says, Bloomberg.com
- Gather 'round the Google to hear radio ads, StarNewsOnline.com
- Building link-based popularity, Google Webmaster Central Blog
- Flash, AJAX, Usability, and SEO, ClickZ
- Think Organic, Act Paid, ClickZ
- How Do People Find Video?, iMedia Connection
- Skype team turns its attention to television, Financial Times
- Yahoo COO didn't get `pink slip', San Jose Mercury News
- Real Time Weather Information on a Google Map, Google Operating System
- Google In Negotiations With CBS On Selling Radio/TV Inventory, PaidContent.org
- SEObook’s Glossary - a valuable SEO resource, David Naylor
- Yahoo's IM update bugs users, News.com
- Google, Baidu eye online video business, China Daily
- A New Review of Scirus from Peter Jacso, ResourceShelf
- Google Adds More Services to the Homepage, Google Operating System
- Yahoo Panama - Interview with John Slade of Yahoo!, Online Marketing Blog
- Smaller Screens Make Smarter Search Engines, SEO By The Sea
- Gmail Wants More Cowbell, InsideGoogle
- TrailFire's Annotations Anywhere + Distribution Through Organic SERPs, Marketing Shift
- PayPerPost Does Something Right, TechCrunch
- The Trouble with Google Toolbar for Firefox, Google Operating System
- Yahoo Search Marketing Click Fraud? Yahoo issues Pepperjam Client $10K as “Courtesy�, pepperjamBlog
- Google shows how to “bling� your blog, Robert Scoble
- Yoono Adds Blog Suggestions, TechCrunch
- Google Finance - After the Redesign, Hitwise
- Interview with Shuman Ghosemajumder about Click Fraud, Out Of My Gord
- MediaPost on Click Fraud, Shumans.com
- Google Apps of the Year, Google Operating System
- Search Innovation Spotlight, MediaPost
- Update on the Product Search SIG, SDForum Search SIG
- Google Spooked by Killer Crane?, Google Watch
- Sync Google Calendar With Windows Mobile, InsideGoogle
- Track Santa and His Reindeer in Google Earth, InsideGoogle
=== Dec. 15, 2006 ===
- Korea's Top Portal, Naver, Renews With Yahoo, Search Engine Land
- Google Adds Ad Quality & Ad Performance Documentation To Help Section, Search Engine Land
- Yahoo Publisher Network Adds Domain Level Blocking, Search Engine Land
- Google On Using Images, Search Engine Land
- SES Chicago '06 Comic Reel, Search Engine Land
- Top Searches At Windows Live Search (MSN Search) For 2006, Search Engine Land
- Top Searches At LYCOS In 2006, Search Engine Land
- Internet Marketers of New York Hits The Big Apple, Search Engine Land
- Google Applications Enables Domain Registration, Search Engine Land
- Eurekster Swicki Improvements, Search Engine Land
- Review your reviews on Google, Googling Google
- Competition between Yahoo and Google could be won by Ask.com, CNN Money
- Flickr Increases Account Sizes for Holidays, Search Engine Journal
- Live.com Tweaks Links on Homepage and Results Pages, ResourceShelf
- Google Earth exposes automakers' secret test tracks around the world, Autoblog
- Microsoft launches new global ad site, NMA
- Sync Google Calendar With Windows Mobile, Inside Google
- Google Hints at New Office in Singapore, CNET Asia
- Google retreats from deal in Bellevue, may shop for office space in Seattle, The Seattle Times
- Yahoo to become Telecom's Xtra partner, Stuff.co.nz
- AdWords Editor Shortcuts, eWhisper.net
- Dwelling on the past, Google Reader Blog
- Namespaced Extensions in Feeds, Google Reader Blog
- More results link, new Video Bar features, Google AJAX Blog
- Yahoo Music Releases Video 3.0, Techcrunch
- A new Payment History page, Google AdSense Blog
- The Library Project: Two years in, Google Book Search Blog
- Click Fraud for the Hundredth Time: When Balance Tips Over to Fatuous, Traffick
- New Research Prototype from MSR: AURA: Advanced User Resource Annotation System, ResourceShelf
- Banned From Digg at SEO News Blog, SEO News Blog
- 5 Myths about SEO, Online Marketing Blog
- Does Google Treat Their Employees Like Children, Threadwatch
- Version Support Policy Extended to 4 Months, Google AdWords API Blog
=== Dec. 14, 2006 ===
- Google's Picasa Add Photo Search & Other Features, Search Engine Land
- Google & NASA To Release More Space Images & Searching Tools?, Search Engine Land
- First Webinar Next Week: How to Find the Right Search Marketing Partner, Search Engine Land
- AT&T Tests Ad-Supported Directory Assistance (Mobile Local Search), Search Engine Land
- Microsoft China To Display Baidu's Search Ads, Search Engine Land
- Comptroller Of NYC, Thompson, Pressures Google & Yahoo Over Censorship In China, Search Engine Land
- Google Advertisers Take On Audio & Print Ads, Search Engine Land
- AOL Video Search Sued By Evel Knievel For Distributing Kanye West's Music Video, Search Engine Land
- Live Local (Virtual Earth) Adds Easier Birds Eye View & Distance Drawing Tool, Search Engine Land
- Google Launches Google Patents, Full-Text US Patent Searching, Search Engine Land
- Search Engine Land Stats: December 2006 Preview, Search Engine Land
- Multipoint Directions in Google Maps, Google Operating System
- Podcast: Baidu To Power Microsoft Ads In China; Google Seeks Offline Advertisers; Google Patent Search & More, Daily SearchCast
- Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii - More Data, Hitwise
- User Data Stolen From Reddit, The Mu Life
- UTube vs YouTube Part II, Google Blogoscoped
- Nayio Gives New Meaning to “Hum Me a Few Bars . . .�, Search Engine Watch Blog
- People of the SEM-o-sphere, Search Marketing Standard Blog
- 5 Myths about SEO, Online Marketing Blog
- Agencies: Google Has Put A Target On Your Back, MediaPost
- I guess the "ornament" in this case would be the Google logo ..., Good Morning Silicon Valley
- Looking at the Fine Print of Gooptions, SearchViews
- New social search engine, Decipho, launched today, Search Engine Watch Blog
- Additional Results from the Google Maps Restaurant Review, Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local
- Use Gmail + Chat to Advertise Yourself, Google Watch
- Virgin Mobile Taps JumpTap for Mobile Search Technology, Marketing Pilgrim
- The Twelve Ways of Click Fraud, Marketing Pilgrim
- The Lil' Google Checkout House, Google Blogoscoped
- Google Implementation of Scrum Tuning in Adwords, SEO By The Sea
- New Report: Internet Users In Search of a Home, ResourceShelf
- Yahoo! Cache Mishandling Superscript HTML Tag, Search Engine Roundtable
- Yahoo! Taiwan finally gets its Wretch, DigiTimes
- Behind the Google deal: A win-win for McKinley, city, Business Review
- Our Sixty Minutes with Bill Gates, Micro Persuasion
- Yahoo: Lower Page Views Due to AJAX, BetaNews
- Google and Technorati blog search rewards sploggers, Robert Scoble
- YHOO COO Rosensweig’s Severance Package Worth About $4 Million; Includes Non-Compete With GOOG, MSFT, PaidContent.org
- The Impact of Dying Directories, Small Business SEM
- Interactive Marketing and Social Media, SearchDay
- Personalization and Privacy Insights from the Search Engines, SEO By The Sea
- Yet Another Top Digger Gets Banned, Pronet Advertising
- First Look: StumbleUpon Announces New Video Surfing Site, StumbleVideo, Marketing Pilgrim
- Bulk Of AOL’s 26 Percent Staff Reduction Completed Through Layoffs, Sales, PaidContent.org
- How Google Controls the Media. No, Seriously., Google Watch
- Another Round of News, Info and Job Search Sites Optimized for your Mobile Browser, ResourceShelf
- Google’s Library Project Turns 2 Years Old; Yahoo Answers Celebrates First Birthday, ResourceShelf
- AdWords Trademark Policy (Part 1 of 2), Official Google Blog, Inside AdWords
- What Happened To Yahoo!'s Web Rank?, Search Engine Roundtable
=== Dec. 13, 2006 ===
- AOL's Top Searches Of 2006, Search Engine Land
- MySpace Passes Yahoo In Page Views But Not Audience, Search Engine Land
- Revisiting Google's 2 Percent Or Less Click Fraud Rate, Search Engine Land
- Microsoft adCenter $50 Promotional Code For New Advertisers, Search Engine Land
- Yahoo Answers Birthday: One Year Old, Search Engine Land
- Yahoo Search Update; Google Data Flux & Should We Have Holiday Updates?, Search Engine Land
- Google Custom Search Engine Eases Collaboration Process, Search Engine Land
- Google Newspaper Ads Run Again, Search Engine Land
- IBM & Yahoo To Offer Free Enterprise Search, Search Engine Land
- South Korea's Portal, Daum, To Run Google AdSense, Search Engine Land
- Google Employee Allowed To Auction Stock Options, Search Engine Land
- Google Toolbar For Firefox 3.0 Adds Great Features, Search Engine Land
- Munch's Scream As Google Logo, Search Engine Land
- How to get on the Netscape/digg homepage--EVERY SINGLE DAY!, Jason Calacanis
- Podcast: Google Employees Allowed To Auction Options; Yahoo Answers Turns One; Yahoo & IBM Partner On Enterprise Search & More, Daily SearchCast
- Which Restaurant Review sites are used by Google Maps?, Understanding Google Maps & Local
- Evel Knievel Sues AOL, but he'll never stop that video from circulating, Google Watch
- Newsknife names top news sites of 2006, Search Engine Watch Blog
- Podcast: SES Recap, Versioning SEO, Contact Google, Yahoo, Google, Click Fraud, Duplicate Content, AdWords, Microsoft & More, Search Pulse
- FTC Moves to Unmask Word-of-Mouth Marketing, Washington Post
- If You Can’t Tell Whether Something Is An Ad, It’s Now An FTC Violation, Publishing 2.0
- AOL Posts Top Searches For 2006, ResourceShelf
- How You're Using AskCity, Ask.com Blog
- Sorry, But Live Isn't Dead, Microsoft Watch
- Google Plants Solar Trees, Wired
- Keyword Phrases SEOs Should Think Twice About Before Attempting To Conquer, Search Engine Roundtable
- Yahoo! hunts brand licensees for Answers service, Brand Republic
- South Korea's biggest Internet search engine operator NHN to enter Japan's search market, The Age
- Ho, Ho, Ho - Holiday Shopping Search Skyrockets, Search Engine Watch Blog
- Online Influence Tied to Search, Social Media Use, ClickZ
- accoona improves its interface?, Phil Bradley
- Does Google Allow Cloaking When They Like the Site?, Google Blogoscoped
- Huge willy seen on Google Earth, Independent Online
- ABC, Yahoo extend news video content deal, Reuters
- New lessons on AdWords Editor now available, Official Google Blog, Inside Adwords
- Shopping Search, Via Mobile Phone, SearchDay
- Forward Links - Because who you link to matters, Jim Boykin
- Interview with Chris Pirillo, Search Engine Guide
- The Supernova17 Story: What Actually Transpired (Confirmed Facts), The Mu Life
- Telecom dumps Microsoft for Yahoo, National Business Review, New Zealand
- Maybe Alexa Stats Can Be Trusted After All, MarketingPilgrim
- Measure Regions With Google Planimeter, Google Blogoscoped
- Building a Kickass Firefox Sidebar, SEOmoz
=== Dec. 12, 2006 ===
- What Google Can't Do, Search Engine Land
- Simple Ways To Get Into Local Search, Search Engine Land
- AOL Has "Safest" Results & Free Results Safer Than Paid, Search Engine Land
- State Department Uses Google In Cracking Down On Terrorists, Search Engine Land
- Google Updates Google Finance Home Page, Search Engine Land
- Yahoo Opens Panama To New Customer Sign Ups, Search Engine Land
- Google Patents Search Results Page, Search Engine Land
- Google Copies Yahoo's IE7 Page; Originality War Breaks Out!, Search Engine Land
- Google Puts Clickfraud Rate At Under 2 Percent, Search Engine Land
- 2006 Search Blogs Awards Nominations End Today, Search Engine Journal
- What we want from Google this Christmas, Pandia
- Google Web Toolkit Becomes an Open Source Project, Official Google Blog, Google Code
- Google And Opera Renew Deal For Browser Search, InsideGoogle
- Pennsylvania using Google Earth to promote tourism, News.com
- White paper says vertical search will hit $1 billion by 2009, Search Engine Watch Blog
- YAHOO: Engineers 'boycotting' London holiday party, Valleywag
- SEM Agency Differentiation (or the Lack Thereof), SearchViews
- Two New Features from Zillow: Real Estate Info Wiki; List Homes for Sale (For Real Estate Agents), ResourceShelf
- New Google VP Busted Mitnick, Wired
- Link Bait? Nope, HatBait!, Search Engine Journal
- Online Marketing Summit in San Diego, Search Engine Journal
- Calacanis SES 2006 Keynote video/audio, Jason Calacanis
- Podcast: Who Copies Whom? A Yahoo-Google Debate Erupts; Google Patents Search Results; Yahoo's Panama Ad System Opens To All & More, Daily SearchCast
- Duplicate Content: What Is It 12/2006, Search Engine Roundtable
- Jonathan Simon Added to Google Webmaster Team, Search Engine Roundtable
- Switching with team blogs and getting out of beta, Blogger Buzz
- Should Search Engines Update Search Results During Holiday Season?, Cartoon Barry
- Yahoo! Search Update 12/11 Confirmed, Search Engine Roundtable
- Paid Blogging Trend Hits a Nerve, Spurs Competition, ClickZ
- Google Kirkland Holiday Party, Juberti
- PayPerPost Nabs MySpace Sales Exec, ClickZ
- Chinese Whispers in SEM, ClickZ
- Coke Teams with YouTube on Holiday Videos, ClickZ
- Wanted: PPC Search Industry Standards, ClickZ
- Yahoo’s “Project Fraternity� Docs Leaked, TechCrunch
- Google's copyright fix, Business 2.0
- Xcavator joins race in visual search, VentureBeat
- xcavator for visual search, Phil Bradley
- How Matt Haughey Beat Google, Anil Dash
- Spying on Digg, Pronet Advertising
- Another Top Digger Gets Banned, The Mu Life
- First digg scam outed? Please help me confirm, Jason Calacanis
- digg users are getting paid--just not by digg, Jason Calacanis
- Searching for Reliable Stats, SearchDay
- Online Ad Vendor Consolidation: Atlas Acquires Accipiter For $30.3 Million, PaidContent.org
- Omniture Announces Marketing 2.0 Analytics Tool, TechCrunch
- The Anti-Google FAQ, Google Blogoscoped
- Gotuit SceneMaker Lets Users Tag And Cut Online Video, TechCrunch
- Media Companies May Be Planning YouTube Rival, E-commerce Times
- Yahoo Dethroned By MySpace, Red Herring
- DIGGBAIT: Top Ten Tech Words of 2006, Valleywag
- Google Research Picks for Videos of the Year, Official Google Blog: Google Research
- New City Sites: Pegasus News and CitySquares, Kelsey Group
- Trigger Google News Archive Results, Google Blogoscoped
- Plastic surgery, Google Base Blog
- Google Base Gets a Facelift, ComparisonEngines.com
- Getting a Link from DMOZ Isn't Worth What It Once Was, SEOmoz
- Book Search Should Work Like Web Search, O'Reilly Radar
- Lost Google Interview Resurfaces, V7N
- How do you Manage Relationships with Search Engine Employees?, SEOmoz
- iProspect Tops List of Best SEM Firms, iCrossing Largest, MarketingPilgrim
=== Dec. 11, 2006 ===
- Welcome To Search Engine Land!, Search Engine Land
- NearbyNow Launches Mobile Product Search For Malls, Search Engine Land
- Google Earth Adds Geographic Web Layer, Search Engine Land
- Google's Software Making It To The Classroom, Search Engine Land
- Google "Plus Box" Puts Maps In Search Results, Search Engine Land
- Berkowitz Describes Steering Microsoft As Cruise Ship & Ask.com As Rowboat, Search Engine Land
- Pay Per Post Reviews Acceptable By Some Search Engines, Search Engine Land
- Matt Cutts On Google Rumor Debunking Rampage, Search Engine Land
- HuriSearch: The Human Rights Search Engine, Search Engine Land
- Ingenio In PPCall Deal With Mobile Search Provider JumpTap, Search Engine Land
- Mad For Toys Search Engine, Search Engine Land
- Podcast: Danny's New Search Marketing Expo; Diggers For Sale? Yahoo's Big Reorg; Colleges Pushing Viagra; Ms. Dewey Uncovered, Daily SearchCast
- MICROSOFT: New search icon [Ms. Dewey] has soft-porn past, Valleywag
- Scan and search a five-day-long "River" of headlines, TechMeme
- YouTube Adds a Layer of Filtering to Be a Little Nicer, New York Times
- Merchant affiliate tracking features now live, Official Google Blog: Google Checkout
- Yahoo mum on football star's suit, News.com
- Uh Oh, Gmail Just Got Perfect, TechCrunch
- YouTube Unveils Real-time Webcam Recording Feature, CrunchGear
- In Web Traffic Tallies, Intruders Can Say You Visited Them, New York Times
- DivX extends Google Toolbar deal, Associated Press
- Google enticed with free parking, Ann Arbor News
- Quick Review: Go Mobile With Flickr, ResourceShelf
- Google Looks for Korean M&A Target, The Korean Times
- Google Dips Toe In Eclipse Waters, CRN
- Google Base update: Rate items and new interface, Googling Google
- Google Trying Google Logo on AdSense Ads, Search Engine Roundtable
- Onsite Store Owner To Sue Blog Owner Over Ranking in Google, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Finance to get a facelift soon, GigaOm
- Google Advertises Firefox on Homepage, Read/Write Web
=== Dec. 8, 2006 ===
- Baidu Launches Blog Search Engine In China, Search Engine Land
- Google China's Co-President, Johnny Chou, To Resign, Search Engine Land
- New England Patriots, Tom Brady, Sues Yahoo For Using His Image In Ad, Search Engine Land
- Terry Semel Knocks Blogs While Downplaying Yahoo Reorganization, Search Engine Land
- Google Begins Testing Audio Ads Within AdWords, Search Engine Land
- Goodbye Chicago SES, Day 4, Search Engine Land
- Google sales force to move into larger building in Ann Arbor, Detroit Free Press
- Picasa now supports Vista, Googling Google
- Diggers Are Getting Paid - But Not By Kevin Rose, Deep Jive Interests
- Google Ready to Reshape Russia’s Market, Kommersant Moscow
- Yahoo's Semel: The Press Is Full Of Sh*t, SeekingAlpha
- Google Cold Calling via Auto Dialer for AdWords Customers?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Google Refinements Applied to Site Command Search, Search Engine Roundtable
- Updated and Enhanced Web Research Tutorials Now Available from Intute’s Virtual Training Suite, ResourceShelf
- Possible Google Update Before Holiday Season?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Fire in Microsoft's adCenter Data Center Brings Down Search Ads For Several Days?, Search Engine Roundtable
- Peeking Inside the Google Engineers' Toolbox , SEOmoz Blog
- Could Google Maps Have Led Kim Astray?, Inside Google
- Viagra Spam hits US Colleges, SEO Montréal
- Trends in Search Related Patents, SEO By The Sea
- Japanese Address and Placename Support Added to the Geocoding API, Google Maps API Blog
- New Attribute Recommender for single items posts, Google Base Blog
- Israel's Metacafe nears $300-mln takeover-report, Reuters.com
- Windows Live Custom Domains gets update, LiveSide
- How to Succeed in 2007 | Sergey Brin, Business 2.0
